--- title: We Finally Know How Much It Costs to Go To Hogwarts description: A year of magical training at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the school that Harry Potter attended, will run you about $43,301. authors: - name: Jacob Davidson url: https://money.com/author/jacob-davidson/ at_money_since: 2014 articles: 106 covers: - Lifestyle - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://x.com/JakeD former_staff: true published: '2015-07-14T22:58:40.000Z' modified: '2024-04-02T05:01:33.000Z' section: Lifestyle tags: - Harry Potter - hogwarts word_count: 285 canonical: https://money.com/harry-potter-cost-of-hogwarts/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Emma Watson, Rupert Grint and Daniel Radcliffe in HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE](https://img.money.com/2015/07/150715_em_hogwartscost.jpg) *Emma Watson, Rupert Grint and Daniel Radcliffe in "Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire"* Ever wonder how much money it takes to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry? Well, wonder no longer. Thanks to the [diligent research](http://mic.com/articles/122103/here-s-how-much-it-would-cost-you-to-go-to-hogwarts?utm_source=policymicTWTR&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=social) of *Mic*'s Kevin O'Keeffe, we now know Harry Potter's alma mater costs about $43,301 per year. O'Keefe gets this figure by combining estimates of the school's price (including some of Time's [own reporting](http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/07/19/high-priced-hogwarts-harry-potters-wizarding-tuition-would-cost-a-pretty-penny/)) with the cost of essential back-to-wizarding-school items like a wand ($42), owl ($140), and cauldron ($105). The total charge for those necessities? O'Keeffe uses J.K. Rowling's *Pottermore* website to peg the damage at $1,031, which when added to the school's price comes out to his total figure. Aspiring wizards and witches should check out [the original post](http://mic.com/articles/122103/here-s-how-much-it-would-cost-you-to-go-to-hogwarts?utm_source=policymicTWTR&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=social) for a full cost breakdown. We'll have to assume Hogwarts has a generous scholarship program, because *Mic*'s figure would be a *huge* amount of money, even for the Draco Malfoys of the world. Remember, Hogwarts lasts seven years, meaning the total sticker price for wizard training comes out to $303,107. That said, schools this pricey do exist, both in the U.S. and in Harry Potter's native country of England. Columbia University, which Money's [college rankings](https://money.com/best-colleges/) peg as the most expensive school in the Ivy League, will run non-financial aid students an eye-popping [$69,084 per year](https://cc-seas.financialaid.columbia.edu/eligibility/facts) when all costs are taken into account. O'Keefe's own tuition estimate comes from two analyses of actual elite boarding school prices in Britain and Scotland. Luckily, there is a way to get the Hogwarts experience for less. A real-life imitation Hogwarts, [located in a Polish castle](http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2014/12/04/harry-potter-fans-can-now-attend-real-life-hogwarts-at-polish-castle/), costs $345 for four days of make-believe. Expanded across [a 195-day UK academic year](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_term#England_and_Wales), that would come out to $16,818, less than half the price of the "real thing." ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/harry-potter-cost-of-hogwarts/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Lifestyle", "item": "https://money.com/lifestyle/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Movies", "item": "https://money.com/movies/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "We Finally Know How Much It Costs to Go To Hogwarts" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/harry-potter-cost-of-hogwarts/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/harry-potter-cost-of-hogwarts/", "name": "We Finally Know How Much It Costs to Go To Hogwarts", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2015-07-14T22:58:40.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/harry-potter-cost-of-hogwarts/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/harry-potter-cost-of-hogwarts/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-04-02T05:01:33.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "We Finally Know How Much It Costs to Go To Hogwarts", "articleSection": "Lifestyle", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2015/07/150715_em_hogwartscost.jpg", "width": 2100, "height": 1397, "caption": "150715_EM_HogwartsCost" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jacob Davidson", "url": "https://money.com/author/jacob-davidson/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/jacob-davidson/#author", "image": "https://money.com/content.money.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/jake-davidson-2.jpg?crop=35px%2C18px%2C872px%2C872px&resize=640%2C640&quality=85&strip&ssl=1", "email": "jake.davidson@yoh.timeinc.com", "sameAs": [ "https://x.com/JakeD" ] } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2015-07-14T22:58:40.000Z", "description": "A year of magical training at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the school that Harry Potter attended, will run you about $43,301.", "abstract": "A year of magical training at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the school that Harry Potter attended, will run you about $43,301.", "@id": "https://money.com/harry-potter-cost-of-hogwarts/", "inLanguage": "en-US", "dateModified": "2024-04-02T05:01:33.000Z", "wordCount": 285, "keywords": [ "Harry Potter", "hogwarts" ], "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Lifestyle", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle" ] }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Film", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film" ] } ] } ] } ```